When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.

No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.